Fred Kendal - May 25, 1983

Education

I went to a public and I also went to, to uh, a cheder. Now what is a cheder? I don't--you know what a cheder is, okay. How about if we go into the...

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Yeah. Rather than sitting here, you know, we can go into the kitchen and have some tea.

Can you tell me about your education--your public school education--what was it like?

Yeah, I went that in Europe. I think it was good for what I remember, I thought it was good and...

What language was it?

It was Russian uh, at the time--well, it was a period that it was uh, at one time it was--at one time it was Poland. And then however, I don't, I don't think I was at school at that time, you know, and then when the Russians came in then it was, you know, public school--Russian public school and I remember that and it was good.

Yeah.

You know, as well as my recollection from that part of it.

Okay. I'm going to turn this off.

[interruption in interview]

Was your family politically active at all, do you remember? Did they belong to the Bund or was there any discussions?